Maori Kogoro began to understand everything

"I've finished my cigarette. I'll go get some in my room..."

Tsuchio left in a panic, leaving Hattori and the others in thought.

No one is a fool. There has always been something wrong with Hammertail, as if he is afraid of something.

"Is this guy hiding something?" Hattori muttered.

"Maybe."

Nanatsuki Koshimizu kept staring at Maori's figure disappearing at the door. Her eyes trembled repeatedly and she seemed a little absent-minded. She clenched her palms before leaving her seat.

"I think I'll go to the bathroom too."

"What are these guys doing?" Hattori suddenly wanted to see how Mori set up the secret room, but he couldn't bring himself to do it, so he ate his dessert in a depressed mood.

Anyway, every time I run into these guys, I get dragged into an incident. I hope nothing goes wrong this time...

Hattori stared at the remaining people in the restaurant in disbelief, took a big bite of the dessert, and looked bitter and resentful.

On the second floor of the hotel, Maori returned to his room and directly picked out the screwdriver, pliers and adhesive from the toolbox.

The secret room technique was indeed exactly the same as the original lavender villa, with lavender deliberately placed in every corner. Even if he didn't want to remember it, he couldn't.

And even Kotani Renzo, who was the butler of Lavender Villa at the time, showed up here...

From what I remember, I just needed to dismantle the entire window frame, cut off half of the screws, and then use adhesive to fix it back to its original state. The whole process took about an hour until the adhesive was completely dry...

Mao Li did not take action immediately, but just leaned against the window and looked outside.

The rain was getting heavier. Under the light, a figure was seen running towards a small wooden house next to him in the rain and hastily prying the door lock.

In the dim light, a jacket and work clothes can be seen.

It's that guy Mallet Tail...

"Knock knock." Before Maori could continue observing, there was a knock on the door.

"Detective Mori, my name is Koshimizu," Koshimizu Nanatsuki hesitated and stood at the door, "I..."

Mao Li opened the door directly: "Come in."

"Eh?"

Yusui walked into the room somewhat confused, having a feeling that Mori was waiting for her.

"that……"

Yue Shui glanced at the tools placed in front of the window, his expression stiffened: "It turns out that Detective Maori has really solved the locked room technique, just as I thought..."

"Some time ago," Mao Li interrupted, looking out the window, "I went to Shikoku for business."

"so……"

"Yes, I did intervene in that case, and I discovered this so-called locked room technique."

"Is that so?" Yue Shui was a little overwhelmed by Mao Li's confession, and smiled vaguely, "But... why?"

Mao Li put his hands in his hands and said in a deep voice: "I was wondering who set up such a trap in the name of Nichimi TV. I didn't expect that it was you who came here... You seem to want to find the detective who intervened in the case, right? What are you going to do now?"

Yue Shui stared at Mao Li's back, his eyes misted with a layer of mist, he bit his lips and said with red eyes: "I just want to ask one question... why? You are a famous detective, why don't you tell the truth to the police? If the police knew about it in time, the maid might..."

"I'm sorry, I was too late when I got to the police station."

Maori closed his eyes and shook his head slightly.

"I just happened to be passing by that time. I heard that the murderer of the lavender incident appeared, so I went to check it out. When I found out about the problem, the maid had already jumped into the sea... After all, I am just a detective, not a prophet. There are times when I am powerless."

"But, but... weren't you the one who provided the police with evidence of homicide?" Yue Shui asked in confusion, "If it wasn't you, then who was it?!"

After a pause, Yueshui suddenly thought of the TV show that Maori participated in at that time, and his face turned pale: "Tokatsu Junya?"

Mao Li turned back to Yue Shui with an inquiring look: "Can you tell me why you care so much about the Lavender Villa incident?"

"Because," Yue Shui clenched her fingers, "because that maid is my good friend..."

"So you recruited so many people just for that maid?"

"The media did not disclose the name of the detective in charge of the case. The only clue was the phone call my friend made to me before the incident. She said that a high school student detective who spoke in a strange way suspected that she was the murderer and wanted me to help her..."

Yue Shui looked uncomfortable.

"But when I went there, the case had already been closed... I could only think of a few people with strange accents who could talk to the police, but I couldn't get in touch with Tokatsu Junya..."

"It's easy to call Butler Kotani here," Mao Li asked in confusion, "but what's the matter with that Hammertail?"

"He is the thief who tampered with the window where the crime occurred." Yue Shui said with his head down.

"I see. Mr. Kotani knew about the young lady's suicide but didn't tell the police. Both of them can be said to be the ones who indirectly killed the maid." Maori nodded slightly. "Then you called them here because..."

"That's right," Yueshui said regretfully, "The rescue ship won't come. I've agreed with the captain that if I tell anyone about this, I won't pay him the remaining money. I don't want to let them go even if I die. I'm also thinking about what to do if the detective sees through my plan... It's a pity that Tokatsu Junya didn't come..."

Yue Shui seemed to care about his life and turned to leave: "I'm sorry, Detective Maori, for involving you. Say sorry to them for me."

Mao Li's expression remained unchanged: "Do you know why the police didn't disclose the truth and the media didn't report my identity?"

Yue Shui paused slightly.

Mao Li continued, "In the final analysis, a few cut screws don't prove anything. Without evidence, the police can't prosecute. Even if the maid is the murderer, the case can only be left unsolved. If they investigate further, they will find out sooner or later that it was not murder..."

"But before anything happened, your friend suddenly jumped into the sea and committed suicide. Once the report is made public, the local police who are investigating the case will bear the brunt of the consequences. At that time, the police will push all the problems onto the maid, and even make the mistake of classifying the maid as committing suicide out of fear of punishment..."

Mao Li looked at the rolling waves in the distance and said, "Reality is so cruel. If your friend waited a little longer, waited for you or me, even until the police gave up... But there is no if in reality, and we can't do anything about it."

After a pause, Mao Li's ears moved slightly, and he turned back to the silent listening outside the door and shouted to Kotani Renzo: "Mr. Kotani, can I come in?"

Yue Shui looked towards the door in confusion, and watched Jia Gu Lian San push the door open and come in: "You..."

"Mr. Koya probably started to suspect when he saw me, but he didn't say anything," Maori looked directly at the silent Koya Renzo, "right?"

"I'm sorry," Kaguya Renzo said to Yueshui with tears in his eyes and choked up, "I'm really sorry. For the sake of the lady's reputation, I really can't say it... I thought the maid's suspicion would be cleared soon, but I didn't expect it to turn out like that..."

"No need to apologize to me," Yue Shui turned his head away, "It's too late to say anything now. I have already destroyed the radio equipment in the cabin. No one left on this island will survive..."

"Someone will come to rescue us..."

Maori was not worried at all and had a faint smile on his face.

"You knew it from the beginning?" Yue Shui's eyes narrowed slightly, staring at Mao Li in a daze, "But..."

"The intuition of a detective is sometimes so unreasonable," Mao Li waved his hand and walked out of the room, "Let's go back to the restaurant. Everyone is still waiting."

Yue Shui stood in the room without moving, looking at Maori's back with a complicated expression.

In the restaurant on the first floor, Hattori pressed Hammertail hard on the seat: "Uncle, can you please explain it now?!"

"What happened?" Maori just returned to the restaurant and saw Hamuo with a terrified look on his face.

"What else could it be? This guy actually wanted to sneak away!" Hattori pressed down on the hammer tail angrily, and suddenly froze for a moment, then he looked at Maori, "Didn't you say that the secret room technique would take an hour? It's done so quickly?"

"Nothing, I just tried it casually." Maori chuckled and returned to his seat.

Just now he had seen this hammertail prying open the lock of the hut, but he probably didn't gain anything. Apart from the damaged radio equipment, there was only a generator in the hut.

"Detective Mao, Maori," Mallet Tail faced Maori's gaze and shrank his neck, "I really didn't want to escape, I just wanted to use the emergency walkie-talkie in the warehouse, but it seems to have been broken by someone... It was still fine when I came to familiarize myself with the site three days ago!"

"Isn't this very strange?" Hattori asked suspiciously, "Why would you go looking for an emergency walkie-talkie?"

"Because," Hammertail glanced at Maori and stammered, "I feel something is wrong..."

"Hattori, don't make it difficult for him," Maori interrupted, shaking his head, "This thief can't say anything, let's wait for help to arrive."

"Rescue?" Hattori let go of Hammertail and looked at Maori blankly, "What rescue?"

"The ship owner won't be back for a while," Yue Shui walked into the restaurant and explained calmly, "and no one knows where we are, that's it."

"what?!"

"Heiji--!" Just as he said this, the sound of a boat engine was heard outside, and Kazuha's loud voice was heard in the distance.

Chapter 115: Precocious Primary School Student and the Uncle Who is Concerned about Sex

"Da da da!" The sound of ships near the isolated island dock became clearer and clearer. He Ye on a cruise ship with strong lights kept waving and shouting.

Xiaolan and Haibara were also standing at the bow of the ship. They saw from afar that Maori was safe and sound, and they immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

“Heiji——!”

Hattori was waiting at the dock with everyone else. When he heard Kazuha still shouting, his face turned slightly red and he looked away: "This idiot..."

The sea breeze was blowing, and Nanatsuki Koshimizu and Maori stood at the back together. She sighed softly, straightened her hair that was messed up by the wind, and a rare relaxed smile appeared on her face.

"If God allows it... I really want to have a real Detective Koshien showdown with you guys."

Yue Shui stretched his arms, faced the cold wind, and looked up at the night sky. The rain stopped, and the starry sky appeared again among the dark clouds.

"If I could go back to high school..."

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Hattori asked curiously, "Aren't you a high school student now?"

Yue Shui laughed: "I'm already 20 years old and graduated from high school a long time ago. It was not easy to find this school uniform."

"what?"

Hattori frowned slightly and stared at Mori who was standing quietly beside him - the latter seemed to know everything, but just said nothing.

"So," Hakuba Tan saw through the situation faster than Hattori, "you invited us to this event under the name of Nichimi TV?"

"That's right," Yue Shui took a deep breath and said calmly, "I designed all of this for the Lavender Villa incident that happened in Shikoku... But it doesn't matter now. You are all high school detectives who can represent a place. I have lost completely..."

Maori glanced at Yueshui, whose hair and scarf fluttered in the wind, and shook his head.

"It's not a matter of losing or not. You were looking for Tokatsu Junya but you couldn't contact him this time... If he came this time, would you kill him?"

"I don't know," Yue Shui shook his head, but didn't say anything against his will, "Maybe..."

"No matter what, never sacrifice your life for someone like Tokitsu Junya... Don't do such stupid things next time," Maori walked to the front of the dock, "You are still young, and you still have plenty of time and opportunities to find the meaning of your life."

Yue Shui remained silent, watching Mao Li waving at the approaching cruise ship.

"This way, this way!"

"Xiaolan, Xiaoai! You are here!"

"Dad! Conan!"

"Heiji!"

He Ye wiped his eyes happily and went to greet the three Maori people with Xiaolan.

Xiaolan picked up Conan and tried to look around: "Is Shinichi not here?"

Conan twisted his mouth speechlessly: Haha, I'm right here...

……

Maori Detective Agency.

In the blink of an eye, a week passed and it was the weekend again.

Hattori and Kazuha stayed in Tokyo for two more days before returning to Osaka, while Nanatsuki Koshimizu returned to Shikoku, reportedly to visit the grave of a good friend.

When the girl left, it seemed that she had something to say to Maori, but in the end she didn't say anything. She just asked for Maori's contact information with a smile on her face.

Anyway, Mao Li hopes that she won't do anything stupid again...

On the second floor of the office, Mao Li picked up the remote control and switched the TV channel.

"The TV shows lately are just not interesting at all..."

"The latest news," a pretty female reporter smiled sweetly as she stood in front of a skyscraper, "the virtual experience game developed jointly by the Japanese game company Mantiantang and Sindorah is about to be completed, and it is expected to be available to everyone soon..."

"According to some of the information that has been revealed so far, it is a virtual game called Cocoon. Players enter a capsule like a cocoon and talk to a game with a voice recognition system while in a hypnotic state. They play in the virtual world. It can be said that it is a collection of the most advanced technology..."

"Eh?"

Mao Li was surprised when watching the short promotional video on TV. "There are such virtual games now? It's amazing!"

Huiyuan explained helplessly:

"Sindorra is the world's leading IT company. It's no surprise that they can develop virtual games. Moreover, they have a genius programmer whose IQ is said to be comparable to that of Einstein..."

"Genius programmer? How genius?"

"Well, I only read some of his scientific research articles on computer programming."